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No mentally-healthy, socially apt individual would devote much of his life to turning the PS2/AMD64 architecture into a 64-bit Commodore 64 optimized for glorif
by FoxotCW 10y ago
No mentally-healthy, socially apt individual would devote much of his life to turning the PS2/AMD64 architecture into a 64-bit Commodore 64 optimized for glorifying and communing with God.
TempleOS is a vision of what computing might have been like if the middle ages never ended. What if computing technology developed in a monastery for the purpose of glorifying God? (Like illuminated manuscripts and sacred architecture.) We'd expect odd mixtures of the archaic and innovative, weird technological taboos and lots of anachronisms that only made sense theologically. Something like TempleOS.
- username223 10y agoThis is a stretch, but bear with me. Don Knuth saw that typesetting was being done wrong, and spent decades doing it right in his own idiosyncratic way, creating TeX. Terry Davis did the same with operating systems, creating TempleOS. Knuth's is the forgiving New Testament faith, while Davis's is the vengeful, capricious Old Testament one, but they were both driven by a personal faith and genius. Knuth's obsession was rewarded by society, while Davis's was scorned. Neither did any real harm.